1893 in the United States

1893 in the United States
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Years:	1890 1891 1892 – 1893 – 1894 1895 1896
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Events from the year 1893 in the United States.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 January–March 2.2 April–June 2.3 July–September 2.4 October–December 2.5 Undated 2.6 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 External links

Incumbents

• President: Benjamin Harrison (Republican) (until March 4), Grover Cleveland (Democratic) (starting March 4)
• Vice President: Levi P. Morton (Republican) (until March 4), Adlai E. Stevenson I (Democratic) (starting March 4)
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia)
• Congress: 52nd (until March 4), 53rd (starting March 4)

Events

January–March

• January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
• January 17 – The U.S. Marines intervene in Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
• January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa.
• February 1 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
• February 24 – American University is established by an Act of Congress in Washington, D.C.
• March 4 – President of the United States Benjamin Harrison is succeeded by Grover Cleveland.

April–June

• April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the United States Navy.
• April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
• May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition.
• May 5 – Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
• May 9 – Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public at the Brooklyn Institute.
• May 10 – The United States Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.

July–September

• July 1 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland has a secret operation to remove cancer in his mouth.
• July 6 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado; 71 people are killed and 200 injured.
• July 12 – Frederick Jackson Turner gives a lecture titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before the American Historical Association in Chicago.
• August 27 – The Sea Islands Hurricane hits Savannah, Charleston, and the Sea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.
• September 11–27 – The World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 11 – Standing ovation to Hindu monk Swami Vivekanda for his address in Response to the welcome at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 19 – Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
• September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• September 23 – The Bahá'í Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

October–December

• October 11 – Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire is officially dedicated.
• November 7 – Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

Undated

• The American National Sculpture Society (NSS) is founded.
• T.M.I.: The Episcopal School of Texas is founded.
• Colored High becomes the first African American high school in Houston, Texas; its name is later changed to Booker T. Washington High School.
• Evergreen Park, Illinois is founded.
• The American Council on Alcohol Problems is established, along with the Anti-Saloon League and the Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem.
• American Temperance University is opened.
• Garza Revolution in Texas and Mexico from 1891 to 1893.

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Panic of 1893 (1893–1894)

Births

Deaths

External links

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